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• Charlie Stross commented on Why I've been quiet lately
  Incidentally, I'm not a climatologist. I am, however, an autodidact authority on trolls and scams, and the stench of crankishness rising off the anti-climate change lobby (mingled with the propaganda dollars donated by Exxon) reminds me very strongly of other ideologically-motivated liars and fraudsters -- from the creationists through the christian Dominionists and proponents of "scientific" racism. Follow the money and see who benefits? It's certainly not the non-existent cabal of billionaire environmentalists desperately trying to keep the grant money flowing. But the billionaire coal corporations desperately trying to keep their business model alive in the face of evidence of...
• Charlie Stross commented on Why I've been quiet lately
  Finally, I have a policy here (in the moderation policy) of not providing a platform for views that I consider to be (a) utterly wrong-headed and thoroughly debunked, and (b) actively harmful. I wouldn't provide a platform for neo-Nazis or Salafi fundamentalists, or for idiots who swallowed Andrew Wakefield's fabricated assertion that vaccination causes autism. And at this point, I think it's reasonably safe to put the climate change deniers in this same basket. The only open questions are how far, how fast, and the extent to which GCC is anthropogenic in origin....
• Charlie Stross commented on Why I've been quiet lately
  I guess what I said must have really pressed a button, otherwise why would you get so upset? The button you pushed that got me upset was nothing to do with your content and everything to do with you barging in and demanding, DEMANDING!!!! my immediate response to your particular hobby-horse, while I'm on vacation. You were downright rude, and I will not tolerate that. (You do not get to have the last word on my blog; nor do you get to project your own bad behaviour onto my shoulders.)...
• Charlie Stross commented on Why I've been quiet lately
  Ideally I'd like an MP who had studied law and politics, spent at least a year on the dole/on disability benefits, to have been on the receiving end of racial/sexual/gender/age discrimination at least once, to test out as not suffering from a sociopathic personality disorder, and set up their own small business or gained a PhD. or a major literary award In other words: to have graduated from the university of life with distinctions after having taken courses in most departments. Alas, we don't get 'em....
• Charlie Stross commented on Why I've been quiet lately
  Using those decriptions, I can't say I can think they suit anyone I know. Perhaps you're being a tad idealistic... The word "ideally", at the beginning of my comment, ought to have made that clear, no?...